Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft ManufacturingAdvanced Composites Consortium team members gathered during May 2025 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia for a technical review...An automated fiber placement machine on an industrial robot is seen at Fives Machining Systems Inc. Fives is one of...State of the art thermoplastic composite material is used in innovative part fabrication and assembly processes to achieve an unprecedented...Members of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium, including representatives from NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing, Spirit Aerosystems, Collins Aerospace, Northrop...Composites Consortium team members gathered during May 2024 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia for a technical review of...Composite parts for a hollow fuselage of an aircraft are assembled. NASA’s HiCAM project is working to increase the rate...The NASA and Electroimpact team: Back row from left: Roberto Cano and Wilfredo Flores, both from NASA. Standing from left:...Carbon fiber, a widely used composite, starts out on spools like the ones in this image before it is fabricated...A researcher uses a magnifying glass to check a composite structure for manufacturing defects, such as gaps, overlaps, or wrinkles....Improvement in efficiency comes in the way the 787 is designed and built. New technologies and processes achieve unprecedented levels...An automated fiber placement machine builds a composite aircraft fuselage for a Boeing787 Dreamliner. The machine is operated by Spirit...
